Hillary Clinton Recalls Trump’s Creepy Stalking During Debate

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton recalls in her new book “What happened” how then-Republican nominee Donald Trump made her skin crawl during their debate at Washington University in St. Louis.

An except from the book was previewed on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” which noted the debate happened only days after an “Access Hollywood” tape revealed Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women by grabbing their vaginas, notes POLITICO:

This is not OK, I thought. It was the second presidential debate and Donald Trump was looming behind me. Two days before, the world heard him brag about groping women. Now we were on a small stage and no matter where I walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces.

It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled. It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching, well, what would you do?

Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren’t repeatedly invading your space? Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, ‘back up you creep, get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women but you can’t intimidate me, so back up.

I chose option A. I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off. I did, however, grip the microphone extra hard. I wonder, though, whether I should have chosen option B. It cerinly would have been better TV. Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.